Media Alert

CBS 60 Minutes levels charges of serious prosecutorial misconduct in the Siegelman case, the Justice Department goes mute. Calls by former state attorneys general—led by a Republican senior advisor to John McCain–for an investigation of what appears to be a politically motivated prosecution by a Republican Administration of a Democratic Governor mount. What to make of this. Harper’s legal affairs contributor Scott Horton will discuss the bombshell developments in the Siegelman case with Sam Seder, hosting today’s Randi Rhodes show, at 4 o’clock Eastern, 3 o’clock Central, 1 o’clock Pacific time, on XM radio and participating Air America stations around the country. Check for the station closest to you, here. or listen to the streaming audio here.

“Eight months pregnant I told an old woman sitting beside me on the bus that the egg that hatched my baby came from my wife’s ovaries. I didn’t know how the old woman would take it; one can never know. She was delighted: That’s like a fairy tale!”

“Between 2007 and 2010, Albany’s poverty rate jumped 12 points, to a record high of 39.9 percent. More than two thirds of Albany’s 76,000 residents are black, and since 2010, their poverty rate has climbed even higher, to nearly 42 percent.”

“We think we are the only people in the world who live with threat, but we have to work with regional leaders who will work with us. Bibi is taking the country into unprecedented international isolation.”

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Ratio of money spent by Britons on prostitution to that spent on hairdressing:

“Shelby is waiting for something. He himself does not know what it is. When it comes he will either go back into the world from which he came, or sink out of sight in the morass of alcoholism or despair that has engulfed other vagrants.”